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Issue 1 is here - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/microservices/archive/5936

Quill (London, UK) - passionate, delivery focused software engineers required (Ruby experience preferred but not essential)!!!

Quill has developed a tried and tested, market-leading Platform to manage the workflows, quality control and content distribution of its global content creator Network. We want to accelerate its development, including opening it up on a “Software as a Service” (SaaS/white label) basis for some of our larger clients, who want to build an internal content production capability.

We have a lot of exciting features we want to develop, and we’re looking for a number of (Ruby) software engineers to help meet our roadmap and speed up the global roll out of the Quill Platform. We’re a start-up (3 years old), and that means a fast-paced environment, an agile tech team who are constantly finding pragmatic solutions to ever-changing problems, and continually learning new skills.

Backed by a strong team of digital investors, Quill has recently secured an additional £5m investment that will accelerate its international expansion, advance the SaaS rollout of the Quill Platform and consolidate its position as the UK’s content marketing leader. Quill has been named one of Britain’s 50 most exciting and disruptive businesses as part of the 2014 Everline Future 50.

It's an exciting time to join (so exciting in fact I'm joining as CTO!!!) so if you're passionate about building great software and want to have a major impact on the business get in touch - andybritcliffe AT quillcontent.com. No agencies please we've got a PSL - thanks.

I think the point being made is that ship cycles are very different between B2C and B2B. I've experienced both (and to be clear I love the idea of frequent small releases) but in a B2B scenario multiple daily releases are simply not possible as you cannot use your customers as testers, I can assure you if you try contracts will be terminated. We ship every two weeks and that has taken a huge effort on our part to help our customers understand the value of a frequent ship cycle. On the flip side I think you can do this in a b2c environment (with appropriate quality controls of course) providing you understand the revenue risks if something is shipped poorly (as you mention with FB and Etsy), at that stage it's pure business priority trade off.

For me I think it's actually a clever marketing move by DHH and 37 Signals to create a "stir" around the issue. My guess is they don't really care what Yahoo's reasons are behind it but are very pleased with the timing...you can't help but notice at the bottom of the post - Interested in learning more about remote work? Checkout our upcoming book REMOTE: Office Not Required.

LONDON, UK - based in kennington close to the Oval cricket ground.

My team are building out our next generation Cloud based sports pricing platform (more: http://www.sportingsolutions.com/products/c2e).

Full job specs can be seen here: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/16736/senior-developer... http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/16928/senior-user-inte...

Any questions or CV's to abritcliffe [at] sportingindex.com Cheers.

Sporting Solutions (Part of sporting index group) - based in London (near Waterloo), UK - FULL TIME

We are currently in the process of building out our next generation Cloud based sports pricing platform. This allows sports traders in other gaming companies to use our real time quantitative models over the web to predict the outcome of a wide range of sports events in real time. You can find out more about what we're doing here: http://www.sportingsolutions.com/products/c2e

We're looking for great web developers, web ops and customer integration engineers to join us. Core technology stack is .net but we're happy using whatever tools help us get the job done including c#, f#, node.js, scala, erlang, mongodb, rabbit mq and redis to name a few. We're fans of REST, distributed systems and lean start-up methodologies (we see ourselves as an internal start-up - without the raw financial pressures of a typical start-up I guess)

If it sounds interesting - get in touch with me - abritcliffe [at] sportingindex.com

this is an interesting stat as I still don't understand how you can get around the "visa" issue of working in the US with a UK passport.

It actually explains the new office in the post "Erich will continue to live and work out of Zurich, Switzerland where we will be opening a small Visual Studio development lab with Erich as the lead."

Just to add a combination of jquerymobile and phonegap has allowed us to deliver native iphone, ipad, android and mobile web app from the same codebase. Pretty sweet.

Such a common issue, we have recruiters phone us directly and lie to whoever answers the phones by saying they have a UPS package for "John" in an attempt to talk to us. Scum bags

not true if you're developing the desktop app in Silverlight which will run in all of those desktop environments (of course Moonlight is not an official release from MSFT)

Complete agree with "If a recruiter insists in having references is a contacts-harvesting cowboy. Treat him like you would treat a zombie. I only give references after the initial interview."

They're always fishing for people (a major alarm bell should be if they're asking for hiring managers or persons of authority) who they can then spam with offers of services.

Based in Guildford, Surrey, UK (no remote at the moment) sharpcloud is looking for a talented Silverlight developer with a passion for creating great software for users, in a fast-moving, dynamic environment. You should have extensive experience in Silverlight, XAML, C# and the .Net framework and a deep understanding of web architecture. Note: if you don't have the Silverlight experience but are an experience asp.net dev looking to get into Silverlight we'd still like to hear from you.

Get in touch at http://www.sharpcloud.com/about/ or my email is in my profile.

About sharpcloud:

sharpcloud was founded on a revolutionary idea: to provide a visually appealing user experience to communities involved in the process of managing knowledge and networks around strategy and innovation. sharpcloud is a Microsoft Bizspark One and Windows Azure Front Runner partner .

I take a pragmatic approach to Unit tests so find some use but don't feel the 100% gold standard of coverage is realistic or even sensible to aspire too but in response to Q3) never - but then I'd return the question When you deploy an app WITH 100% coverage how can you be confident that there are no regressions? I'm pretty sure the answer is never too as 100% test coverage doesn't prevent 100% of bugs.

Everyone is pretty quick to criticise Ballmer and Microsoft and while he does spout a lot of nonsense has anybody actually evaluated Microsoft's cloud platform....from the comments I would say no.

I have and I have to say it's an excellent platform, it has a good feature set, competitive pricing (matches EC2) and they're doing tonnes of work to it and throwing a lot of cash at it. It's not tied to the .Net framework(you can run php, Java, RoR etc etc on it).

Interestingly they also announced Windows Azure appliance yesterday at WPC10 which is the first proper effort to solve to private cloud problem and having spoken to businesses looking at our product this is definitely an issue for B2B SaaS applications.

I just don't understand the immediate disregard for anything Microsoft does, yes IE has been sh*t however it's foolish to write off every new MSFT offering as the "next IE" without understanding what it is offering.

So I'd be interesting to hear if anyone is running this in a prod env? I'm currently evaluating NoSQL at the moment (mongo, cassandra, raven etc etc) so would be interested to hear peoples real world experiences with it?

We're looking for .Net devs (Silverlight experience a bonus). We're based in Guildford in the UK. You can find out more about what we're going from a video we've just done for channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/David+Gristwood/Real-World-Az....

Email me if you want more info.

So Kindle for the UK and free 3G access....wow very tempting

Yeah I'm liking the look of 99 Designs, especially as you say the fact you get a broad range of initial designs which gives you a nice perspective on the directions possible.

It's certainly something I will look at, we've got a mix of short term requirements and more longer term so this approach seems to fit nicely with the latter at this point

Appreciate all the responses. Will check out the suggestions!!!